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#25 2008-09-30 23:52:33

masa
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From: Asturias, Spain
Registered: 2005-11-25
Posts: 1,091

Re: four little changes for 4.0.7

kemie wrote:

i think what aba means is that the publish button should be visible WHILE IN preview mode, without going back to the text tab

I have to admit, I find the preview function rather useless since it uses the admin’s CSS and not the live-site’s. It’s fine to check your Textile formatting, but users are generally puzzled when what they see there doesn’t even remotely resemble the look of the live-page. Previewing to an “invisible” section – although a workaround – is far better.

I wouldn’t miss it if it were removed entirely; the HTML tab only makes sense for geeks. Perhaps these tabs could be made optional?

Labelling the title- and body fields (above) would certainly be a nice touch for end-users.

Last edited by masa (2008-09-30 23:53:26)

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#26 2008-10-01 01:31:29

wet
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From: Schoerfling, Austria
Registered: 2005-06-06
Posts: 3,330
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Re: four little changes for 4.0.7

ruud wrote:

Robert, what do you think about adding Title/Body labels as proposed?

Good for me.

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#27 2008-10-01 10:36:45

els
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From: The Netherlands
Registered: 2004-06-06
Posts: 7,458

Re: four little changes for 4.0.7

masa wrote:

I have to admit, I find the preview function rather useless since it uses the admin’s CSS and not the live-site’s. It’s fine to check your Textile formatting, but users are generally puzzled when what they see there doesn’t even remotely resemble the look of the live-page. Previewing to an “invisible” section – although a workaround – is far better.

Martin, from history.txt, ‘Changes in 4.0.7’:

  • Write tab: WYSIWYG preview for draft/pending/hidden articles

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#28 2008-10-04 13:39:18

gomedia
Plugin Author
Registered: 2008-06-01
Posts: 1,373

Re: four little changes for 4.0.7

ruud wrote:

Robert, what do you think about adding Title/Body labels as proposed?
I don’t object.

I can see that the labels have been added in the latest SVN. Very nice, but I’d like to suggest a change to the CSS to make the gaps between the input fields/textareas & the labels more consistent:

textarea { margin-top:5px; }

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#29 2008-10-26 10:13:52

Destry
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From: Haut-Rhin
Registered: 2004-08-04
Posts: 4,909
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Re: four little changes for 4.0.7

wet wrote:

Looks definitely cleaner than the current tabs.

+1. I just now stumbled upon them, installed them (the 20% opacity version), and I can say they are going to be a permanent fixture in my admin-side now, all else staying the same.

One thing I would recommend, however, is using a sliding doors technique so that tabs can size to the text label rather than all being fixed at one size, needlessly.

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#30 2008-12-02 20:14:38

maniqui
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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Registered: 2004-10-10
Posts: 3,070
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Re: four little changes for 4.0.7

So, finally, this set of tabs didn’t make into 4.0.7…
maybe for 4.0.8? :D


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